Christmas in the Far Out There Universe – page 15
A bit of mythos fine-tuning here. Originally the Hoch’ren Honnee were supposed to be a sort of messianic cult. That was the whole point behind the “most important person” titles: the Number One Most Important Person was the one who was eventually save the universe during their prophesied last days, and the rest are backups just in case… buuuuut pretty much all the jokes I can think of for these guys have nothing to to with that backstory and everything to do with them just being a generic Rich and Powerful Organization. So here’s official confirmation that even they don’t really care about that backstory anymore.
…and Frank doesn’t have anything to do tomorrow because, seriously, would YOU ask him to show up for anything?
(Historical Notes: I don’t remember if I ever mentioned this anywhere else, but at one point my explanation for why we never see the 1st or 2nd Most Important Person was because the Hoch’ren Honnee had dissected them and kept their organs in storage. The idea being that didn’t really need the “person” to do whatever messianic universe-saving thing they were preparing for, just the genetic material. Frank would be the first “spare” far enough down the totem pole for anyone to risk him going around and doing stuff and risking damage. Of course, I’ve since realized that’s WAY too dark to actually show in a comic, so now I just assume No. 1 and No. 2 live like isolated hermits, totally cut off from the rest of the universe and all its icky germs and threats of minor injury. I think that idea lends itself to way more than just one single punchline.)
I thought I remembered you saying at one time, though I have no idea where, that #1 and #2 were kept in cryogenic storage, to be thawed out if their universe-saving talents were needed. I guess that’s kind of halfway between “chopped up for parts” and “living but isolated hermits”.
I probably said it on the forums somewhere, and then we all forgot about it.
Of course!! Now I realize – That’s what your brand new web site needs: A forum!!
Every body loves Forums, right?
😀
I’m definitely gonna have a link to the old forum on the site eventually, if only to preserve all the old topics. I’d dunno if I’m ever gonna try to set up any kind of new means of interaction beyond the comments, though. (I still don’t understand what Discord is outside of the fact that it scares me)
Discord is basically a chat software with additional communication features. Think any text-based real-time conversation software, add in a few additional features such as the ability to make phone calls through it, and you have the basic concept down. It’s popularity among streamers and content creators is basically that it makes communicating with lots of people (aka, their audience) and guiding those people into segmenting themselves into understandable groups significantly easier that most anything else.
So someone basically took the same chat features we already were using in unix 30+ years ago, dressed it up in fancy clothes, and now they’re probably going to sell it to micro$oft or google for billions and retire to their Bond-villain-like fortress on their private chain of islands in the pacific? Dangit! Why can’t I think of these ideas?! I want a Bond-villain-like fortress on a private island too!
My thing is just that I don’t like the whole real time chat room aspect. I’m too much a product of the bulletin board age.
nothing good can come from real-time chatting!!
waaaaay too much like socializing. with people
ugh!
if I wanted to socialize with people, i wouldn’t be on the interweb!
I mean, it’s also that I’m just prone to missing stuff otherwise, but yeah, that too!